The information or petition of the Informant who alleges contraventions of sections 1 and 5 of the legislative ordinance of Quebec, 17th year of His Majesty's reign, chapter 7th, which prohibits the sale of strong liquors to Indians in this Province and regulates trading &c. is fundamentally defective inasmuch as it refers to, and calls for judgment at Quebec on offences alleged to have been committed in the Great Bay of the Esquimaux which bay is outside of the Province according to

the limits thereof fixed by the statute of England of the 14th year of His Majesty, chapter 83, which provide that this Province is bounded on the north by the southern limits of the country conceded to the Merchants of England trading in Hudson's Bay and that the grant made to the Hudson's Bay Company included and retained all the countries, seas, bays, harbours, trades &c., that had not been conceded by the Most Christian King, and which the accused submits have never been conceded beyond cape Charles. Wherefore the Informant, in order to maintain his information must show and prove the limits of this Province within which he alleges the contraventions took place, whether they were actually committed or not, in default whereof the present exception annuls peremptorily his prosecution which ought to be rejected with costs; wherefore the accused prays accordingly.